Category: Ontario Grain Farmer

Many of us try to follow Canada’s new food guide, to incorporate more plant materials into our meals. Some plant-based foods though contain foreign-sounding ingredients that make you shake your head. Enter Neophyto Foods of Guelph and the ‘Craft it Yourself’ meal kit, with just five ingredients.

Farms can be noisy workplaces, from running equipment to livestock and ventilation systems. All may be unavoidable, but all are loud. If hearing protection is neglected, hearing loss can jeopardize worker safety. And that’s not to mention the mental health problems that can arise when conversations aren’t heard or well understood.

A water quality initiative underway in Huron County is aimed at slowing the flow of water runoff on contoured land, where it’s particularly hard to manage. The project, headed by the Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association, brings to focus how sustainability has economic as well as environmental implications, so yield measurements are an important part of the study.

Farming is a tough job by any measure.  And when it’s time to pass the operation along to the...

It’s great to see one of agriculture’s own recognized with this country’s highest award – the...

NTT Indy Car Series’ decision to change fuel suppliers from Sunoco to Speedway raised...

An international breakthrough in wheat breeding has produced a new genotype of wheat with enzymes...